She also starved herself on a strict diet of chicken and tomato juice and was required to find a sponsor. In her new memoir “Straight Walk,” Patricia Velasquez recounts her impoverished childhood, her time in the South American beauty-pageant system and admits what she had denied or played coy about in the past: She’s a lesbian.ĭiscovered as a teen by a local hairdresser, Velasquez was chosen to compete in the 1989 Miss Venezuela pageant - as long as she had her eyes done, her ears pinned back and got breast implants. She was “the world’s first Latina supermodel” - but she was keeping a secret. New Year's Eve is not Sandra Bernhard's favorite holiday Sandra Bernhard: 'Pose' recalls horror of early days of AIDS Sandra Bernhard dishes on snark, 'Pose' and eavesdropping for material Groundbreaking 'Pose' stars 'will be wielding that power' as show ends
